Try to learn Russian really quickly.
London-based writer. Often climbing.
Try to learn Russian really quickly.
That may explain why they didn’t abolish slavery, but does not justify the fact that they themselves owned slaves.
Having strong morals is mutually exclusive with compromising your morals to enrich yourself, which we’ve established is something they did.
True, but one that conveniently allowed them to do what they were already doing anyway. As I say: not titans of moral probity.
Personal power, leadership abilities, integrity and morals were much stronger with these people, and in their times in general.
There’s just no reason at all to think this. Most obviously, people who signed their names to the idea ‘all men were created equal’ while themselves owning slaves quite obviously did not possess a high degree of moral integrity.
Kind of an obvious one, but Free Solo. Even knowing what happens, it’s one of the most tense things you’ll ever watch.
FIFA. Every man and boy in England loves FIFA, except me. I find it totally boring and pointless.
I assume that they didn’t always speak that way, but as their language evolved it became gradually more dense with allusions, until they took over entirely.
Whether or not George Mallory summitted Everest.
Mallory was a great climber. People who knew him think he had the ability. Another member of his expedition saw Mallory and his partner, Andrew Irvine, close to the summit, but not close enough to be certain whether or not they made it.
Neither man returned from the mountain. Mallory’s body was later found, many decades after he died. but Irvine was never seen again, dead or alive.
There are various other bits of circumstantial evidence, but the fact is we’ll simply never know for sure. I like to think they made it.